Nationality Indian Role Novelist Name Shweta Taneja | Genre Fantasy Period 2012– | |
Occupation Novelist, Graphic Novelist, Journalist Books Krishna: Defender of Dharma, Cult of Chaos: An Anantya Tantrist Mystery, The Ghost Hunters of Kurseong | ||
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Shweta Taneja is an Indian novelist, graphic novelist, and journalist.
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- Looking at speculative fiction beyond mythology live with shweta taneja
- Shweta taneja talks about krishna
- Biography
- Writing career
- References
Shweta Taneja has written the novels The Matsya Curse: An Anantya Tantrist Mystery, How to Steal a Ghost @ Manipal, Cult of Chaos: An Anantya Tantrist Mystery and The Ghost Hunters of Kurseong. She wrote the scripts for The Skull Rosary, a five-story graphic novel involving the Hindu god Shiva (published by Holy Cow Entertainment) and Krishna: Defender of Dharma, about the Hindu god Krishna (published by Campfire Graphic Novels). She currently lives and works in Bangalore, India.
Shweta taneja talks about krishna
Biography
Shweta Taneja grew up in Delhi, India. She earned a Masters in English Literature from the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi and a Masters in Fashion Communication from the National Institute of Fashion Technology.
Writing career
Taneja's journalist career began with the magazines Femina and Men's Health (where she was the Assistant Editor of the India edition). She continues to write for several print and online publications including Mint, Discover India, Swarajya, Scroll and The Huffington Post (India).
Her first publication was the Krishna: Defender of Dharma graphic novel, for which she wrote the script and collaborated with illustrator Rajesh Nagulakonda. In 2013, the graphic novel was recommended for Classes 7 & 8 for schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, India by the Association of Writers & Illustrators for Children.
The Ghost Hunters of Kurseong was her first novel. It involves a group of twelve-year olds who solve a mystery in the hill town Kurseong in India. Taneja promoted the novel using a children's detective workshop. Groups of children would solve a mystery within a given time and then draw out their version of the events
The Skull Rosary was Taneja's second graphic novel. She wrote the script and collaborated with five different illustrators for each of the five stories in the novel. It was nominated for Best Writer and Best Cover for the Comic Con India awards 2013.
Her next work was Cult of Chaos: An Anantya Tantrist Mystery which is a detective fantasy novel based in Delhi, India. The protagonist of Cult of Chaos is Anantya who is a woman tantrist - a practitioner of Tantra. Cult of Chaos is billed as India's first tantic-detective novel. The novel was launched with The Occult Detective Quiz at Bangalore, India
In 2016, Taneja published How to Steal a Ghost @ Manipal which is as described by The Asian Age as "A young student turns into a paranormal investigator to impress her boyfriend." The book is published in an ebook format by Juggernaut Books and it was the Taneja's foray into becoming a hybrid author.
Her second novel of the Anantya Tantrist Mystery series - The Matsya Curse was published in 2017.
In 2016, Taneja was selected for the Charles Wallace India Fellowship (Chichester University, UK).